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What makes [...]

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Good question.

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How we've traveled so far on a road that was so

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long?

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Here's the answer.

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Oh, it's happened lots of everything we need.

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It's happened milk and vegetables
and corn for the bead.

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[...]

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But it takes more than that to make.

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It's the finest of machinery
and the power to work the land.

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It's the finest kind of man
to do the jobs at hand.

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It's the freedom to go.

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It's the freedom to travel
where a man may want to go.

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That's what it's...

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An active partner in America's
biggest business, farming.

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His success is based on a simple formula.

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Power means production.
More power means more production.

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He takes his power for granted.
It's always there when he needs it.

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Hard to imagine doing without it.

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There wasn't always there and struggled
to make the land and nature work for him.

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Oh,
we don't know for sure how the struggle began.

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But life was mighty hard
for the prehistoric man.

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He had to feed himself
and his family somewhere.

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This was one way of getting food.

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However, it had its drawbacks.

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The food supply wouldn't always cooperate.

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It was often a long time between meals.

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He had to find a way to get
food when he wanted it.

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What he needed was more strength, added

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power, a weapon.

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But even in those days,
there were scoffers, people with a

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thousand ways of saying no.

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Why were your arm like with that thing?

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It'll never work, and only one way to get meat.

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But man was not to be discouraged.
Armed with a weapon, he became a hunter.

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As time passed, man improved his weapon.
He became a skillful hunter.

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Too skillful. Animals became scarce.

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To stay alive, man had to migrate from
place to place, always on the move.

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Not the sort of life a man would choose,
but if he was to go on eating, he had to

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keep following the food supply.

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Maybe he did have a choice after all.

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Yes,
he saw the chance to have a permanent home.

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Not the scoffer.

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He wasn't falling for any hairbrained ideas.
He'd go on

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wandering the rest of his life.

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But man and his family clung together bravely.
Somehow they managed to survive.

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When spring came, their courage was rewarded.

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Man went to work building up his reward,

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and made an interesting observation,
which eventually led him

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to discover how plants grow.

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Seeds buried in the ground. Water.

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Sun. Germination. Grow.

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Little by little,
man learned how to work the land.

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Later, he developed the first crude plow.

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Now he was his own master.
No longer just living, but making a living.

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Man had become a farmer.

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He passed the biggest barriers of that
early day, when many wrote the full as

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yet, but he was on his way.

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He had freedom to go, to expand and to grow,
and the man on the land knew where

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he was going to go.

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With a dependable food supply
population increase, families began

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living together in communities.

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These were the beginnings of civilization.

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Some men developed other skills. Trading began.

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The best farmer got the best of the trade,
which encouraged him to

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produce more and better crops.

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But there was a limit to what he could
produce with the available power.

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This led to another great discovery.

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It'll never work. We've gone as

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far as we can go.

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Man disagreed.

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In the centuries that followed,
his inventiveness carried him much

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farther and much faster.

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He traded with other communities,
with other nations.

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Wherever man brought abundance
from the land and was free to

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trade, civilization advanced.

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Early civilizations arose and
were succeeded by others.

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One of the greatest was the Roman Empire.

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When Rome fell, Europe entered the Dark Ages.

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Law and order gave way to force of arms.

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To survive, farmers had to buy
protection from local warlords.

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The price was their freedom.

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The farmer was now assert.

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Lowest caste in the social order.

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No longer working for himself.

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Held in bondage by the noble on the hill.

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A man without freedom is a man bound fast.

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A man who is bound to the drudgery of the fast.

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It don't dare speak up or
call his soul his own.

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And the burden in his heart
is like a load of stone.

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For centuries, there was almost no
change in the farmer's way of life.

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Yet man kept alive the dream of freedom.

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Finally, word came of a new world
where a man could be his own master.

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Many traveled the long road to freedom.

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It meant going back for a time to a primitive,
dangerous life.

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But here they were free to speak, speak, speak.

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Think and worship as they wished.

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Here man had a chance to grow and get ahead.

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An opportunity that shaped the
future of the American farmer.

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When his freedom was threatened,
he refused to knock it under.

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He liked his independence
and he wanted to be free.

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But they told him to be loyal
to a land across the sea.

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So he wore the declarations
and defied them all.

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He oiled his gun and waited
for the trumpet to come.

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That's what it takes to make a country strong.

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A man on the vandals knows
a guy from the throne.

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There were scoffers in America too.

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Hey, why do you want independence?

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Why don't you just do what they tell you?

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The man had conquered chose independence.

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He fought and won.

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It was his land and worth fighting for.

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A land with a promise.

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For many a farmer,
the promise led him off over the horizon.

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He kept pushing the boundaries
westward as population increased.

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More people meant more mouths to feed,
more land to feed them.

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The farmer needed more power,
horse power, horse drawn machinery.

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Still it wasn't enough.

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He doubled, tripled, quadrupled the horse
power until feeding his work animals

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took a large part of his land, labor, and time.

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His whole life was a race against time.

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At the end of the

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day, his energy was totally used up.

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He had to find another source of power.

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As always, the scoffer was on hand.

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Who ever heard of plowing that way?

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Don't you know when you're licked?

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Still the farmer kept trying.

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So did others.

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The patent office was bombarded
with schemes and devices.

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Oh, what else, what else will Luna take?

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You take those fellas over in Pennsylvania,
punching a

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hole in the ground to get oil.

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Well, what good is it?

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They can burn it in a lamp, but that's all.

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They think,
they think that thing will run on oil.

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[...]

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Probably tell you next,
they'll put wheels on it and make it.

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[...]

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Oh, they think it'll pull a plow.

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It'll never work.

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The whole idea will blow up sky high.

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Wrong again.

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Here, blowing sky high was power to
revolutionize man's way of life.

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For the farmer, power to run the tractor,

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outperforming any number of work animals.

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And no crops required to feed it.

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A nationwide race began to
meet the demand for oil.

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North, south, east, west, east, west,
the country [...] liquid power was

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seen on the ground.

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Cowering up for every need, cowering up
to fast, cowering up to build a future

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brighter than the past.

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Hundreds of companies were formed,
little and big, all

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competing for a share of the business.

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Machine manufacturers were also in
competition to build cheaper, more efficient

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tractors and other kinds of farm machinery.

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Petroleum powered vehicles of all sorts,
trucks to haul farm products to market,

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on roads converted from dust
to asphalt by petroleum.

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As farms became more mechanized,
more and more farm products flowed to market.

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Farmers cultivated many times more land,
raised many times more crops

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for man acre than ever before.

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And over the years,
everyone has shared in the benefits.

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The progress is a stepping stone to a
better life, and everyone can share it with

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the farmer and his wife.

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There's time to relax, stick it around,
and one more time to do a better

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job than ever before.

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Yes, time to keep up with the latest
information from the county agent

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and land grant colleges.

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The wide awake farmer keeps
improving his crops and stock.

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For this keen rivalry among farmers,
each year they supply the public with better

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products, and they demand the same
from the industries that supply them.

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More and better insecticides, weed killers,
fertilizers, better lubricants to

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protect machinery against the
wear and tear of friction,

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and continually better fuels.

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The demand for oil products keeps increasing.

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There are always scoffers.

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Uh-uh. You're heading for trouble.

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There sure won't be any oil left.

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Hang on, [...]

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Wrong again.

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New techniques are even bringing
old wells back to life.

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New fields are being opened
up all over the world.

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New drilling methods to tap
oil pools miles underground.

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Better refining.

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New techniques to conserve every drop of oil.

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As it has in the past, America's oil industry,
made up of thousands of products,

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will continue to supply the power we need.

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Power for the farmer to accomplish a
job that's now worldwide in school.

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For today,
American food reaches after its length with us.

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The farmer has come along with
his struggle to make the land

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and nature work for it.

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But tomorrow promises even greater abundance.

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Abundance created by the free American
man on the land and in partnership with

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American industry and its power.

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Together they will work to
ensure our strength and

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preserve our climate of freedom.

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You cultivate your freedom
like you cultivate your land.

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You guard against its enemies
on each and every hand.

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You keep yourself awake
and you're ready to fight.

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To sacrifice the things
you have for what you know

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is right.

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That's what it takes to make a country strong.

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A man on the land will know
the right from the wrong.